Ragnarok Online

Hello!

We realize that you’re probably sick of these emails, and we promise this is the only one you’ll be getting. We ask that you read it, or, at the very least, give it a quick skim.

We’re emailing you to let you know about EternityRO. Many of you may already be playing on Eternity, while others may have played before, while others still, may have quit RO altogether. Thus, this serves as information for current players, as well as a briefing and invitation to potential players.

EternityRO has been running for about six months now – and outstanding half a year. But, what makes us special? While most servers start to lose population after the first or second month, steadily, EternityRO has been growing, now peaking with over 2200 players. More, EternityRO has managed to keep extremely competitive War of Emperiums for its entire life thus far. Even though several guilds have come and gone, new guilds keep emerging, and old guilds still remain. Still more surprising, there has been no drop in the economy, due to the superior economic management theory employed by the administrators – all behind the scenes, with no visible side-effects. To add to this, EternityRO started with a promise of *at least* 18 months without a wipe or shutting down. We plan to keep this promise.

So, why should you join? Simply, because EternityRO has a superior environment for both the casual gamer and seasoned veteran. In the rest of this email, I will detail points on *why* EternityRO should be your server, and overview some of our features. Not to mention, we currently have a Battle Manual promotion even going on, where all new characters get 20 battle manuals that when used, give +100% exp for 30 minutes! That’s an effective 10 hours of 14x exp, used at your leisure! Don’t miss out!

—Server Specifications—
Processor: Quad Core Xeon (2.4ghz)
RAM: 4gb (ddr2)
Connection: 1000 mbps DEDICATED

You may ask, “why use such a powerful system when eAthena doesn’t support multithreading and you’ll never use 1000 mbps?” This is because the EternityRO development team has modified our server software to integrate the use of all four cores. This means that no other RO server has the processing ability and efficiency that EternityRO does. We use a 1000 mbps dedicated line because we want to be prepared. Even if we are attacked (somehow managing to get past our security hardware!), with such a wide connection, game play will likely not be interrupted.

In addition, EternityRO employs the use of a different company for every one of its services. We keep frequent backups on 4 different machines, with different companies, in different parts of the world, with different usernames and passwords! We even keep one separate drive that is never connected to the internet. With EternityRO, your information is secure, and you never have to worry about being hacked!

—Stability—
Through these six months that EternityRO has been alive, we have experienced only one crash, which was quickly fixed in a matter of minutes. Because of our additional security features, crashing does not create duping as it would on other servers. More, other than this one crash, for the entire six months, EternityRO has not been offline more than once a week for scheduled maintenance. That’s right, if you’re an EternityRO player, you will probably never see the server down!

EternityRO incorporates code unavailable anywhere else to optimize performance. Since our performance update a few weeks ago, even with the huge amount of players on EternityRO during War of Emperium, even the slightest traces of server lag are usually undetectable. However, players do sometimes have lag, often created by intermediate networks, or the players themselves. We provide unofficial trace support for players with lag (details on forums), to pinpoint the origin of lag and eliminate it. We believe all players should enjoy this lag-free environment.

With numerous players from the USA, Canada, France, Brazil, Australia, Argentina, Chile, Germany, Poland, Spain, the Philippines, and more, almost all demographics report superior performance as compared to other servers. At EternityRO, we want to make your best, our best.

—Staff—
The staff on EternityRO is very well trained. With a team that speaks over 7 different languages and living in numerous time zones, you never have to be afraid that you can’t find a GM! Even while not in game, there is usually someone on IRC offering support!

Amongst our development team, we have one brilliant ex-eAthena developer, and the current eAthena admin. More, we have several other brilliant developers who have areas of expertise both server side and client side. From optimizing to fixing bugs to creating new features, the EternityRO Development Team does it all.

There are three Administrators on EternityRO: Karei, Griffin, and Sonnet. Apart from these three, none of the other staff can drop, trade, or otherwise transfer items. In fact, they are given power to do their jobs, and nothing more. We stress the uncorrupt nature of EternityRO, so you can rest assured that our GM team brings you a fair and balanced environment. The administrators take fairness very seriously, and take time out of their days to look up hacking cases, and deal with people who may have been wrongly banned in bot sweeps, or by our automatic bot detection software (NEVER happens to people using unmodified clients).

—A Couple of Features—
Rates: 7 (base) / 7 (job) / 5 (drop) / 3 (Bosses) (14/14/5/3 with the battle manual promotion!)
City Warper: Yes (takes you to towns for free)
Party Listing NPC: Yes!!! (Using this NPC in Izlude, or by private messaging it, you can register your party! Upon doing so, all people set up to receive notifications in your level range will be alerted! Players can also scroll through the listings to find your party! Not satisfied? We have a ladder you can use to find players yourself on the Control Panel!)
No Vend/Chat Areas: Yes (You can only vend on the sidewalk)
Double Vend Protection: Yes (You can’t vend on top of someone else anymore!)

@autoloot: Yes (modified to prevent abuse)
@pricecheck: Yes (Can find how much items are going for!)
@guildhp: Yes (Toggle on the ability to see the health bars of your guild mates!
@allychat: Yes (Ever wanted to speak to your allies? Now you can! Distinguishes between Leader and member!)
@showheal: Yes (Shows you heal amounts on potions, and other healing souces)
@showcraft: Yes (Shows you crafting % chances)
@request: Yes (Ask a GM a question, or ask for help!)
@woetime: Yes (Ever forget when WoE is? Use this command, and it’ll tell you how much time it is until War of Emperium! Never struggle with time zones and Daylight savings again!)
@autotrade: Yes (Modified to automatically set up auto trade on alt+f4, and automatically vaporizes homunculus. Never lose a homunculus due to auto trading again!)

Server Ventrilo: Yes! (We offer a free ventrilo service for all EternityRO players and guilds. Never worry about not being able to start a guild, because you can’t afford a ventrilo server!)


—Donations—
So what’s the catch, right? It all sounds good so far, so there has to be a catch… right? Wrong. EternityRO donations are not siphoned away for personal gain. In fact, every penny donated pointed towards the server to make it better. From purchasing hardware to extensive advertising, EternityRO utilizes its funding very well. In fact, we challenge players to find anything more we could reasonably upgrade. Lastly, we also keep a detailed donation log on all the income. Donors can choose to be anonymous, or choose to be named. Everyone will have access to a complete listing of all the funding.

So what about the donation items? We have no over powered donation items! In fact, all donation items are statless. So what’s the use? Well, we implemented a “synthesis system”. You can take the cute donation hats you get, and merge them with one of your existing stated hats. Both old hats disappear, but the new hat you get will look like the donation hat, but have the stats of the old hat! Thus, just because someone donates, doesn’t mean he or she gets an advantage! There is a wide variety of donation items available.

—Bots, Rules, and Abuse—
EternityRO has a low-key protection system that keeps out the majority of bots. This system is not perfect, but causes no additional lag (more than can be said of complex encryption systems). The bots that do get onto EternityRO are quickly found, and “deep sweeped”, which includes more than just an IP sweep. Thus, proxy bots still get their main accounts banned! The result? There are barely any bots on EternityRO. For such a large server, it’s quite a feat, and we’re proud of it.
EternityRO also has *the* most complete set of rules of any RO server. Don’t believe us? Check it out!:
http://www.eternityro.net/forum/index.php?act=boardrules
Nothing is left to guessing, and all rules can be referenced by section, topic, and paragraph!

—A Final Word—
So, with all that we’ve described, isn’t EternityRO the perfect place to be? New opening servers only serve to split up the diminishing RO population. At EternityRO, we believe that a Grand Unification is necessary – we believe that all current RO players need to bulk up together here, to keep our private community alive. Blessed with a large international community, here is where to test your prowess. With guilds and players flocking to EternityRO every day, why not come too?
This is an optimal time to start! Starter gear is starting to drop in price, and many old players are making new characters too. In addition to the large amount of incoming new players, this means, whatever your level, you’ll find someone to party and chat with!

With all that said, thank you for reading and considering our proposal. You can find us…
Website: http://www.eternityro.net
Forums: http://www.eternityro.net/forum/
IRC: irc.deltaanime.net/eternityro
Control Panel: http://eternity-cp.hopto.org/
Download our client on the website to join in on the fun, or come on the forums or IRC to join the community!


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